THE SITUATION IN THE BALKANS.
PROPOSED RUSSO-AUSTRIAN ' COMMISSION/ TURKISH MIGRATION. FIGHTING IN THE MONASTIR DISTRICT. SIXTY INSURGENTS KILLED. MACEDONIAN OUTRAGES. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. London, October 12. Reuter's Agency reports that it is understood that the Powers have; proposed that the body to carry out j reforms in the Balkans should con- i sist of a commission of Austrian and ' Russian Consuls attached to the staff j of Hilrai Pasha, the Turkish Gover-nor-General. \ Constantinople, October 12. Four thousand Turkish families from Konia aye migrating to fill the places of the massacred Macedonians.
In a fight which lasted two days near Peristero and Precipitas, in the Monastir district, between a himderd insurgents and three thousand Turks, 60 insurgents were killed. The remainder , then surrendered. The Turks lost 120. (lleceivsd October 13. 6.39 p.m.) London, . October 12. Renter's Monastir correspondent states : "If undisciplined Turkish soldiers have committed irregularities, Bulgarian bands have committed more. I have seen the ruins of 250 Turkish homes burnt by insurgents." . (Received October 14, 0.32 a.m.) Constantinople, October 13. The Sultan has issued an irade ordering the scrupulous execution of the reform scheme and the avoidance of everything calculated to lead to complaints also the protection of all Turkish subjects.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 14 October 1903, Page 5
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